Nutmeg-grater.



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UNITED `STATES` Patented september 22, 190e.

PATENT rOEEICE.

ALFRED H. HILL, OF STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFV TO HARRISON W, RUGG, OF STERLING, MASSACHUSETTS.

' NUTM EG-G RATER.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,312, dated September 22, 1903.

Application filed J' une 30, 1903. Serial No. 163,694. (No model.)

To all whom 'it concern.-

Beit known that I, ALFRED H. HILL, of Sterling, in the county of Worcester and Stateofl l so in which-- Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of my said improved nutmeg-grater. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of the grater.

15 The object of my invention' is to provide a simple and eective vnutnrieg-grating device whereby several nutmegs may be grated at the same time and also reduce the liability of injury to the fingers as by the old way of hold- 2o ing the nutmeg in the fingers and rubbing it against a roughened surface.

Said invention consists of a transverse plate having a rou ghened or grating surface and attached to the hubof a handle for turning the 2 5 same, whichis iitted to turn upon a centralv longitudinal shaft,and of a spring holding device for holding the nutmegs with a yielding y pressureV against said roughened surface to grate the same by turning the handle of the grater, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

To enable others to better understand the nature and purpose of mysaid invention,I will now proceed to describe it more in detail.

3 5 Referring to the drawings, G represents the grating-disk, which is attached at opposite sides to the ends of a bar C', which is in turn formed upon or secured to thefhub of ahandle C. The hub of said handle O is fitted to turn loose on a central longitudinal shaft E, being held in positionlongitudinally thereon between the nut F onthe end of said shaft and the inner side of the central part of the nutmeg-holder A, which is secured rigidly to shaft 45 E. Said nutmeg-holder is in this instance provided with two cup-shaped receptacles A A to receive the nutmegs H. Said receptacles are open at both ends--atone end to admit the nutmegs and .at the other end to permit said 5o nutmegs to come in contact with the grating surface, as is shown in the drawings. The nutmegs are each held against said grating surface with quite a strong yielding pressure, so as to grate them when disk G is turned by means of a transverse frame B, fitted to slide 55 on shaft E and having two longitudinallyprojecting arms B B', whose ends extend into the receptacles A A and bear against the nut- -megs on their opposite sid es from the gratingsurface.

Similar way to grating them in the usual way 70.

by hand. In thus grating the same the nutmeg-holding part of the ldevice is held in one hand and the disk turned by the other. The manipulation of the device, as will be seen,

is very simple and convenient to perform, and 7 5 the nutmegs may be very evenly grated. When one set of nutmegs has been grated away, another set may be supplied by ypulling outward on frame B to withdraw its arms B B from receptacles A A and turning the 8o same, as isshown by dotted lines in Fig. l,

so that, the nutmegs may be placed in said receptacles, and thus replacing said holdingarms in the receptacles over said nutmegs.

As before stated, only two receptacles and 85 holding-arms for the nutmegs are shown on the device; but,if desired,morethan this num ber may be employed in practice without departing from the principle of my invention.

I also reserve the right to make such modiii- 9o cations in the construction as circumstances may require coming within thescope of said invention.

Having now describediny invention, what I claim therein as new, anddesire to secure by 9 Letters Patent, is

l. A nutmeg-grater, comprising in combination, a transverse, roughened surface, grat ing-disk, a handle to whose hub said disk is secured and tted to turn on a central, longia roo turn on the central shaft, With a nutmegholder secu red to said shaft, a frame tted to slide on the shaft and adapted to bear against the nutmegs in said holder, and a spring for exerting an inward, yielding pressure on said frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ALFRED Il. HILL. [L. s]

NVitnesses:

KATE S. TAFT, H. W. HARRISON. 

